The Debt of Dictators is the first film to expose the nefarious lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, asserts that transnational banks “know the price of everything, but have no values”. Debt of Dictators reveals the impoverishment resulting from the odious debts incurred to multinational lending institutions by these dictators. The film transports viewers to Argentina, South Africa, and the Philippines, where they come face to face with those suffering from the sacrifice of essential social services in order to repay these illegitimate debts.

"We loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to illegitimate regimes, then facilitated the flow of trillions of dollars of corrupt and tax-evading money out of these same countries, and now have the audacity to tell the next generation of poor people that they have to pay off their debts in order to be creditworthy in the future. The arrogance of this position is breathtaking. The Debt of Dictators gets squarely into the moral dimensions of this issue."

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In cooperation with Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), the Norwegian director and filmmaker, Erling Borgen, tells the story of how one-fifth of all developing countries' debts are the result of loans given to support brutal dictators and their regimes in the past.

The film asks whether it is fair that poor and innocent people in the world today have to repay the debts of former dictators.

The focus of this TV-documentary is the illegitimate debt in Argentina, South Africa, the Philippines, and DR Congo. The documentary looks behind local tourist attractions, and visits the poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and the depressing township of Johannesburg, where, where poor youngsters desperately seek jobs. The Journey ends in the slums of Manila.

Along the way, the viewer will meet the global debt movements rooted in local civil society: dynamic, popular movements eagerly campaigning for debt cancellation.

The story highlights the sad fact that even when corrupt dictators and generals were committing the most horrifying human rights violations, the large banks of the world such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were lining up to offer billion-dollar loans.

for three years now, brutal murders have shocked Honduras’ Bajo Aguan region.88 small-scale farmers, labour activists and lawyers have been killed because they were trying to reclaim land from Grupo Dinant, a notorious palm oil company. Dinant had stolen the farmers’ land in order to establish palm oil plantations.

Even though the region has long been occupied by police and military forces, further killings are being reported every month. Villages and buildings are being destroyed and burnt down by the state forces. The people living there are driven from their land by violent means.

The World Bank is financing Dinant with a loan of more than $15 million and is seemingly planning on transferring the same amount again to the palm oil company in the near future.Please tell the World Bank to cancel the loan and prevent similar loans in future: